Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
SPRIG Of HEARTS. EASE.
Our Burdens Only Half as Hard to
Garry if We can Find Some One
to Share Them With Us.
When the Apostles Got Into Trouble
They Always Went and Told Jesus
the First Thing.
All tho isdom of tho Ages Has Found
No Better3soIace for Broken Heart
ora Wounded Spirit,

No BettsrsoIace for Broken Heart
4 ora Wounded Spirit,
SPECIAL tssHe Gazette.
BRo5KEYN, N. Z; May Sat the Tab
ernacle this morning the Rev. T. De Witt
Talmage, D. D., gave notice of the annual
pilgrimage of his congregation, which
this year will be to Martha's Vineyard,
| Mass. It will begin July and end July
Z. DR.. Talmage will preach at Martha's
Vineyard on July and deliver an Grafton
on he 4th. Congregational singing q
the Tabernacle is led by a cornet and
organ. A boy choir chants twice during
the service. The hymn sung by the con-
gregation this morning begins:
Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear,
1t is not night If Thou be near.
DIR. Talmage's text was: "And His dis
ciples went and told Jesus" Matthew
XIV, u. He said:
| An outrageous assassination had Just
| taken place. To appease a revengeful
woman. King Herod ordered the death OF
that noble, self sacrificing Christian, u Ohm
the Baptist. The group OF the disciples
were thrown into grief and dismay. They
felt themselves utterly defenseless. There
was no authority to which they could
| appeal, and yet grief must always find
| expression. II there be no human ear TO
! hear it, then the agoniZed soul will CRY
out aloud to the winds and the woods and
| the waters. But there was an ear that
was willing to listen.s There is a tender
| pathos and at the same time most ad-
mirable picture in the words of my text ::
"They went and told Jesus" He could
understand all their grief, and He imme-
diately soothed it. Our burdens are not
more than half so heavy to carry if an
other is thrust under
THE OTHER END OF THEM.
Here we find Christ, His brow Swallowed
with grief, standing amid the group of
disciples, who, with tears, and violent
gesticulations, and wringing of hands,
and outcry OF bereavement, are express
ing their woe. Raphael, with his skillful
brush putting upon the wall of a palace
some scene of sacred story, gave not so
skillful a stroke SIS when the plain hand
of the evangelist writes: "They went
and told Jesus.o
The old Gofbs and Vandsls once came
down upon Italy from the north of Eu-
rope, ano they upset the gardens, and
they brokedown the affairs, and swept
away everything that was good and
beautifuls SO there is ever and anon in
the history of all the sons and daughters
of ourfAc an incursion Of rOugh-handed
ksraaf9fes that come to plumber and ran
fzsack and put to the torch all that men
highly prize. There Is no cave so deeply
cleft into the mountains as to allow US
shelter, and the foot of fieetest courser
cannot bear US beyond the quick pursuit.
The arrows they put to the string fly with
unerring dart, until we fall pierced and
stunned.
feel that bring to you a most ap-
propriete message. l mean to bind up
all your griefs into bundle and set them
on fire with a spark from Gods altar.
The same prescription that cured the
sorrow of the disciples will cure all your
heart-aches. l have read that when God
frey and his army marched out to cap
ture Jerusalem, as they came over the
hills, at the first fash of the pinnacles of
that beautiful city, the army that had
marched in silence lifted a shout that
made the earth tremble. o, you soldiers
of Jesus Christ, marching on towards
heaven, 1 would that to-day, by some
CLEAN from the palace of Gods mercy and
Gods strength, you might be lifted into
great rejoicing, and that before this ser
vice is ended you might raise
ONE GLAD HOsANNA
to the Lord!
In the first place l commend the beha-
vior of these disciples to all those in this
audience who are sinful and unpardoned.
There comes a time in almost every mans
history when he feels from some source
that he has an erring nature. The thought
may not have such hett as to fell him. 1t
may be only like the fash in an evening
aloud lust after hot summers day. One
man to get rid of that impression will go
to prayer, another man will stimulate
himself by ardent spirits and another man
Will dive deeper into secularities. But
sometimes a man cannot get rid of these
Expressions; the fact is, when man finds
I|sSut that his eternity is poised upon per-
4ect uncertainty and that the next moment
bis foot may slip he must do something
violent to make himself forget wheIe he
Stands or else fly for refuge.
If there are any here who have resolved
thst they would rather die of this awful
cancer of ssin than to have the heav-
In n sHfgeon cut it out let me say, my
deaE brother; you mingle for yourself
ssHStter cup. You fly IN the face of your
EVERLASTING interests. You crouch under
kagoke and you bite the dust, when, this
EMoment, you might rise up crowned
Ha6nquerer. Driven and perplexed and
harassed as you have been by sin, go and
EtelI Jesus. To relax the grip of death
IRON your SOUL, and plant your IN
Ehaekled feet upon the golden throne,
Christ letgsths tortures of the bloody
IE;;Sils dat trsHsfix him. With the beam of
Ellis own cross He will break down
RI THE DOOR OF YOUR DUNGEON.
bFrom the thorns of his own crown He
VIII pick enough gems to make your
brow blaze with eternal victory. In
kevery tear on his wet cheek; in every
cash Oils side; il every long, blacken-
| ing nhiK of laceration from shoulder to
shoulder; in the grave-shattering, heaven
staming death groan, 1 hear Him say:
ssjm that cometh unto Me, l will in no
Wise cast out"
81 "Oh," but you say, "instead of curing
smy wound you want to make another
aswound, namely, that of conviction"
Have you never known surgeon to come
/ and find chronic disease, and then with
ksharp caustiesbuFn it all out? So the
tS1sSs QkzsGBd comes to the old sore OF
| sinssF'It mas long been ranking there, but
by Divine grace 1t is burned out through
| these fires of conviction, "the flesh COM
/ ing again as the flesh of a little child;"
/ where sin abounded, grace much more
| aboundeth." With the ten thousand an
pardoned sins of your life, go and tell
| Jesus. You will never get rid of your
! sins in any other way; snd remember
7 that the broad invitation which I extend
to you will not always be extended.